If you live in California or Minnesota, you might notice your next yummy-yummy frappy-frappy in a new cup.
Starbucks is rolling out a new, compostable cup design for cold beverages. The new cups are similar in appearance to the standard white single-use cups with the green siren logo in front used for hot drinks but are fiber-based and compostable. The new dome lids for cold beverages are also fiber-based and white. The double-insulated cups also come lined with what Starbucks describes as a “bioplastic” material.
Why is Starbucks only introducing compostable cold cups in 24 out of approximately 17,000 US stores? Well, we can certainly say it’s only a drop in the plastic bucket, given the number of cold drinks Starbucks serves in single-use plastic cups (with accompanying plastic straws and lids) across the country, especially during the summer.
